Signed book: First World Flight. First edition, limited issue, numbered 292/575. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1925. Hardcover, 6.25 x 9.75, 328 pages. Boldly signed on the colophon in ink by aviators Lowell Smith, Erik Nelson, Leigh Wade, Leslie Arnold, Henry Ogden, and John Harding, as well as the author, Lowell Thomas. In very good to fine condition, with some minor foxing to textblock, rubbing and light soiling to boards, and an ownership inscription to first free end page.
On April 6, 1924, four Douglas World Cruisers and eight crewmen set out from Seattle to attempt the first around-the-world airplane flight. Some 175 days later, on September 28, three of the bi-planes and the six men aboard—all of whom signed this book—became the first to circumnavigate the earth by air.
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